- Yellowstone Club and Homewood developer Discovery Land Company plans to revive the former Stagecoach ski area near Steamboat as a private ski and golf resort. A local realtor says Stagecoach Mountain Ranch has a Doppelmayr gondola on order.
- Loon Mountain rekindles plans to build a pulse gondola from RiverWalk Resort in Lincoln to the base of South Peak in 2025.
- MND’s upcoming product launch appears to be lift related.
- Hesperus, Colorado will remain closed next season.
- Nordic Valley will refurbish, not replace Apollo.
- Red River retires the outgoing Copper Chair early due to a mechanical issue.
- A paraglider in Austria dies after flying into a moving gondola. Two passengers in the gondola cabin were slightly injured.
- Mad River Glen details plans for Skytrac to add a mid-station to Sunnyside this summer.
- Mt. Bachelor installs a new electric motor on Northwest Express, allowing it to run full speed for the first time since January.
- A small forest fire briefly closes Timberline’s Jeff Flood Express.
- Parks Canada says no again to a Banff-Mt. Norquay gondola.
- White Hills, Newfoundland rope evacuates the Powder Line Express due to a mechanical issue.
- Powderhorn reopens the Flat Top Flyer after a 17 day unplanned closure.
- The Los Angeles City Council will vote today on a motion to halt approval of the Dodger Stadium Gondola.
- Arapahoe Basin moves to paid peak parking, may alter Ikon Pass access for next season.
- Sugarloaf load tests the newly shortened West Mountain double.
- Norway Mountain, Michigan begins selling season passes for reopening next season after seven years closed.
- FirstGroup, a large private operator of public transit, will take over operation of the London Cable Car.
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Hey I think Stagecoach can be successful. That’s great! Good luck to them! I don’t think there are any remains of the former 3 Heron-Poma doubles there anymore.
Here is a link about Stagecoach on an outdated website.
https://www.coloradoskihistory.com/lost/stagecoach.html
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The lower lift (chair 2 or Little Hitch, I think) is still there at least. I recently drove by the place and the half-built day lodge and that lift were still standing. Chair 1 (Big Hitch) ended its career at Winter Park where it was the Timberline lift, and I don’t know about chair 3/Yellowjacket (their upper mountain lift).
Given the influx of folks to Steamboat (and Colorado in general) these last few years, I think a *public* ski are would do well. I’m less sanguine about this private club idea. I’m sure there’s a draw in that rarified group of the ultra-wealthy, but I’ve also heard how few take advantage of the Yellowstone Club. I could be way off base there as I definitely don’t travel in those circles….
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it might be successful since steamboat is nearby. I believe that’s how Yellowstone club stays solvent, members can ski over to big sky. Otherwise YC and stagecoach would be too small to be enough of a draw. But I dont run with that crowd so I could be wrong.
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This one is a little different, if I remember correctly from the last time someone tried to resurrect it, the ski area was/has been planned to be 3000 skiable acres which could make it a true ski area in it’s own right.
However, I also agree that we should be advocating for public ski areas to be built especially in areas like this which will be less sensitive to potential climate change.
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Colorado already has a private ski resort. There are no lifts, snowcat served., and much larger skier acreage. https://cimarroncolorado.com/ Seems they limit their numbers to 13. There’s also an area 40 miles n of Steamboat, also snowcat served. https://threeforksranch.com/activities/private-skiing-snowboarding/
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With places like Yellowstone club and Wasatch Peaks Ranch, I’m thinking this would work out for Stagecoach as well.. Especially if the private community takes off.
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This is correct. The model is real skiing as a real amenity to unimaginably expensive real estate that is in close proximity to an existing center of gravity. These things can’t be out in the boonies because then there’s nowhere to go and conspicuously spend $400/head on dinner.
Stagecoach will succeed because it folllows this model and the people behind know what they are doing.
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I wonder if the gondola ordered for Homewood and sitting in Reno is now going to Stagecoach.
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Pretty sure that gondola is gonna be installed at Homewood this summer, no? Did I miss something?
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MND posted another post on X today this time a bubble chair vid clip so yes new detachable lift product line being introduced.
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Do you have the link to this post?
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First Post on their X feed @MndGroup
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